Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers 5/19/22 - NHL Picks & Predictions

Last Updated: 05/18/2022 at 10:41 PM ET

This Thursday night May 19th, 2022 7pm EDT the NHL playoffs is back with more exciting hockey action. The Tampa Bay Lighting are in Sunrise FL to face the Florida Panthers in FlA Live Arena. Stay tuned we've got you covered on all the best betting angles here at Picks and Parlays your leader in free sports betting picks!

The Tampa Bay Lightning are 52-24-8 sitting in 2nd place in the Atlantic Division. Offensively the Lightning are averaging 3.46 goals, and 30 shots. The Lightning are 20.8% on power play opportunities and 49.9% on faceoffs.

Defensively the Lightning allow 2.82 goals and 29.3 shot attempts with a 79.6% penalty kill. Expected goalie for the Lightning is Andrei Vasilevskiy(39-18-5) with a .918 save percentage.

The Florida Panthers are 54-16-6, 22-9-6 on the road, sitting in 1st place in the Atlantic Division. Offensively the Panthers are averaging 4.12 goals, and 36.7 shots. The are 22.6% on power play opportunities and 47.5% on faceoffs.

Defensively the Panthers allow 2.88 goals and 31 shot attempts with a 89.4% penalty kill. Expected goalie for the Panthers is Sergei Bobrovsky(39-7-3) with a .907 save percentage.

We think these team will be able to score enough to cover the 6.5 total. The over is 4-2 in the Lightning Las 6 games and 4-3 in their last 7 on the road. We think this game will be fast paced snd high scoring and our best bet is the Over 6.5. Final score prediction the Florida Panthers win the Tampa Bay Lightning covers the spread and the total goes over 5-4. 

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